Belgian authorities are looking for "one and more individuals with weapons, explosives," the vice prime minister said this evening, as the country raised the terror alert to the highest level in the capital.

"The threat is imminent, precise, we're talking about possible attacks by several individuals, heavily armed, so obviously in parallel we are looking for one and more individuals with weapons, explosives," Vice Prime Minister Dider Reynders said on Belgian television RTL.

"An investigation is ongoing and we can't say more, we must avoid disrupting it," he said. "What I can say is that there's a real threat and that's why we raised the level to 4, and why we've taken security measures. Investigators are looking for individuals who have the capability of committing such attacks."

The Belgian crisis center said it raised the terror alert in the Brussels region to a level 4, while a level 3 remains in place for the rest of the country.LeggerearticoloQUIRead article HERE

Australian police arrested six people as anti-racist and anti-Islam activists clashed at a Reclaim Australia rally in the southeastern city of Melton. A large contingent of police separated the two groups.

At least 300 people came to the “Reclaim Australia” event at the Melton Civic Centre to speak out against the construction of a mosque in Melton, located just west of Melbourne. People carried signs reading, “Integrate or immigrate.”

The rally was organized to protest the decision by the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) that overruled the local council's denial to issue a permit to the Melbourne Islamic Centre to build a mosque in the city.

A Turkish Airlines Airbus A330 jet flying from New York City to Istanbul was sharply diverted midair and landed in Halifax, Canada due to a bomb threat. Firefighting crews and police have evacuated the aircraft.

256 passengers and crew have been moved to the terminal building, and “all is going smoothly,” the emergency services stated on their Twitter account.

Canadian emergency services and Royal Canadian Mounted Police responded to the situation, East Hants Fire Service Dispatches reported on Facebook. The fire department earlier tweeted that a bomb threat has been made.

The flight in question is Turkish Airlines TYH2 / TK2. While the nature of the threat has not been confirmed, plane watchers on social media have speculated it may have been made online.

Blackout in Crimea after 2 transmission towers in Ukraine ‘blown up’

Electricity has been completely cut off in Russia’s Crimean peninsula since all power transmission line towers in the neighboring Ukrainian Kherson region were “blown up” by an unknown party, TASS reports. Right Sector militants had been rioting in the area earlier.

Crimean authorities rushed to connect hospitals and other vital infrastructure to reserve power stations and generators late on Saturday after the four main transmission lines from Ukraine were cut off in an apparent act of sabotage. The regional energy ministry has created an emergency response center to deal with the power cut.